IMO a large part of the problem, as always, is NIMBYism amplified with lack of proper law enforcement. If you try to build a shelter everyone around it will do

IMO a large part of the problem, as always, is NIMBYism amplified with lack of proper law enforcement. If you try to build a shelter everyone around it will do everything they can to prevent it. Which I understand because a large part of the homeless population and for sure the most visible one, now just meth and fentanyl and need money to support that habit. Open drug use and catch and release policing is a bad combination and nothing anyone wants near their home. At the same time I hear nothing but terrible things about being inside a shelter which also seems to be a anarcho nightmare of theft and frequent sexual abuse and violence. All these things need to be fixed and some of it is a chicken/egg problem.